Canadian paedo who flew to Ireland to have sex with teen girl he groomed online is jailed for four and a half years

The truck driver - who is also banned from the internet for ten years - met the Kerry girl on an chat website when she was just 13 years

By Adam Higgins

12th April 2017,8:09 pm

Updated: 12th April 2017,8:14 pm

THE heartbroken father of an Irish girl who was preyed upon by a Canadian paedophile has told how the sicko has torn apart his family after “brainwashing” his 13-year-old daughter.

Depraved Jashua Robert Tremblay, 34, has been caged for four and a half years after pleading guilty to two counts of child grooming, one count of sexual interference and two counts of breaching bail conditions.

At one point he text: “I’m serious. I want to have 100 kids. We’ll put your p***y to good use.”

Three months after his first visit to Kerry, Tremblay flew back to Ireland for a ten day trip while the girl was on holidays from school and had sex with her almost every day.

The teen had lied to her single father on both occasions and claimed she was staying with her friends.

Prosecutor Craig Krieger said Tremblay was fixated on carrying out his “sick fantasies” with the girl and only stopped after he had been caught.

He said: “He was so committed to fulfilling his sick fantasies, the amount of money he must have spent to travel to Ireland from Western Canada puts him into a different category.

“Each time the offender was communicating with her he had the chance to cut it off. He only stopped because he was discovered.”

Tremblay was arrested in Canada after gardai tipped off cops there following an investigation after they received calls from people who saw the couple together and were concerned about the nature of their relationship.

He was released on bail in Canada until he broke the conditions by fleeing his hometown following a city-wide wildfire evacuation in 2016.

He stayed at a home for 11 days with his girlfriend and her three children and did not inform the family they stayed with of the conditions of his release.

Tremblay has apologized to the teenager and her father and previously told the judge that he was “ready for any kind of incarceration, any punishment.”